Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

for the following venture strategies: American Dynamism ($600M), Apps ($1B), Games ($600M), Infrastructure ($1.25B), and Growth ($3.75B). More importantly, founders building AI foundation models need an entirely different set of networks and capabilities than founders building biotech therapies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Since I started working at First Round Capital back in 2009, very few early stage investors seem to be doing the same kinds of deals at the same stage today as they did back then. I'll never get it right 100% of the time, but I realize now, more than I ever have, how these relationships add up to a network over a career.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. What does that mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. I have one message for you, ‘get over it! LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 24, 2020

In the last US economic downturn in 2008-2009, my Forum and EO taught me that the keys to surviving are being the first to respond, taking quick decisive action and being agile. I also used my EO network to broadcast the fact that we were now in the plexiglass business. They were extremely supportive.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place. It may seem tautological that a higher rake is always better – that charging more would be better than charging less. The rest is history.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. The next important group to spot the weakness in Techstars’ strategy was the investment community.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

“Ennoconn’s capabilities in AIoT, together with our own in cloud computing and marketing technology, equals the opportunity to develop pioneering retail solutions for Indonesia and beyond,” said Brian Yang, funP group Co-Founder, and Chief Strategy Officer. To date, the funP group has already made major inroads into the Indonesian market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. It was all technical.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. People join boards for many reasons, but one of them is to leverage their networks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

He will also address common challenges that nontechnical founders may encounter when building their founding team and offer practical strategies for overcoming them. Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network. The company has largely been bootstrapped, although it did raise a private round of a few million dollars in 2009 and a $20 million injection of capital in 2020.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

She previously founded Dress for Success, a network that empowers women to thrive both professionally and personally, and Crisis Textline, a non-profit that provides crisis intervention support via text. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Execute on the strategy to win.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

You’ll also often hear companies that started in coworking spaces praise the networking benefits of being in a shared space — team collaboration, events and close contact with people in other companies helps startups connect and grow. Tech Brewery Ann Arbor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

DIMO based on a network of drivers and fleets to collect and share their vehicle data to learn more about their vehicle, save money, and build better mobility applications.” “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

… 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! Jill Nelson joined EO in 2006.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

That’s why third-party companies can join the Iziwork network. This is an interesting strategy as it greatly increases supply on the Iziwork marketplace. Founded in 2009 and based in Madrid, it has generated €500 million in revenue last year. The startup has realized that it can’t open offices in every big and intermediate city.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. It’s a proven strategy to improve the safety of all road users that depends heavily on one critical input: reliable, standardized data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today, Africa’s largest digital payments network MFS Africa joins the fray. He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. In the West African country, agent banking networks are more prominent.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. VC total) — as a strategy to de-risk and improve the deployment of equity investment into Black, Asian and ethnic-led venture capital funds. It found that all-ethnic teams received an average of just 1.7%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. This couldn’t be further from the truth, and both startups and SMBs can, and should, invest in ABM strategies,” advises Jonas van de Poel, head of content marketing at Unmuted, an Amsterdam-based growth agency. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional). TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional). TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

In recent years, many states and communities have embraced food systems and ag/food sector development as core economic development strategies. This is a field with lots of innovation and creativity underway, but one of my favorite efforts has been Vermont’s Farm to Plate programming.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional). TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009. The reality is that Amazon’s true unique selling proposition is its distribution network,” he writes in a guest post. Kickstarter’s CEO on the future of crowdfunding.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In “The Social Network,” it’s when this coding, viral platform genius that we’ve been introduced to, gets presented with the Harvard Connect idea by the Winklevii and decides to steal it. Then comes Plot Point 1, around a third of the movie in. We care about these characters and build excitement. Email deck.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Numbering more than 400 people, Optimizely has built an amazing business since 2009, serving thousands of customers. In addition, we’ll talk about consumerization of IT , the fundamental shift in purchasing power from CIOs to line managers, and how to leverage this shift when developing your SaaS startup’s go-to-market strategy.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. Instead of having to navigate a network of independent sales representatives or travel to trade shows, brands can sell into thousands of authenticated accounts already buying inventory on Faire.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

MMC Networks filed in 1998 with $14M in ttm revenue and $0.5M Without significant barriers to entry, new entrants use lower prices and freemium strategies to win market share. Such strategies ultimately reduce price points and decrease the value of a market reducing profitability for all market players. Small IPOs. .

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2009 by top scientists in the fields of aging, genetics and biology from Harvard, MIT and Tufts, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system, aiming to help people optimize their bodies from the inside out. says Myoung Cha, chief strategy officer and president of Omnichannel Care at Carbon Health.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The structural problems of the EU monetary union came into focus in a big way from 2009–2011, when a number of European countries struggled to pay off the massive debts they had accrued over the preceding decades. An EU member entering technical default and leaving the EU to resolve its debt problems is the ECB’s worst nightmare?—?and

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said that a North Korean state-backed hacking group known as Lazarus is responsible for the recent theft of $625 million in cryptocurrency from the Ronin Network, an Ethereum-based sidechain made for the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity. Image Credits: Alex Trautwig / Getty Images.

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